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Will traffic volume increase with PageRank getting higher?

by sinpeople
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Hi, buddy,

I don't know much about SERPS. For one website, does it necessarily mean it will get more traffic after its PR improvement?


Thanks
David
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas Smale
    No. PR doesn't affect traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author whyfrown
    hey there ,
    i don't agree entirely. As your PR increases, it would imply that Google would rank your site more highly and hence move closer to the no.1 spot for whateverkeywords you have hence increasing traffic . Am i wrong?
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  • Profile picture of the author ShaneRQR
    PR doesn't cause traffic.
    Sure, in general, higher PR sites are likely to get more traffic, but one isn't causing the other.

    Example: I have several sites that I only use for link-building that have high PR (PR3-PR6), but get basically zero traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author whiteweb
      It does not necessarily mean to get good volume of traffic with good PR; though being on the top rank in Google may become a cause to fetch quality traffic for a website. But it may vary on different situations and the ways traffic comes from.
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    • Profile picture of the author WillR
      Originally Posted by ShaneRQR View Post

      PR doesn't cause traffic.
      Sure, in general, higher PR sites are likely to get more traffic, but one isn't causing the other.
      Couldn't have said it better myself.
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      • Profile picture of the author GeckoTribe
        All other things being equal, you'll rank higher if you have higher PageRank, but PageRank is only 1 of over 200 factors influencing Google's rankings. If you do a search and check the PageRank of the top 10 results, you'll usually see PageRank all over the map, with lower PR sites outranking higher PR sites all the time.

        PageRank may be useful as some sort of general indicator of how your link building is going. But if you're obsessed with PageRank, that's unhealthy, because you're letting a single factor distract you from all the other things you really ought to be focusing on like building good content and getting highly relevant links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by sinpeople View Post

    For one website, does it necessarily mean it will get more traffic after its PR improvement?
    Not necessarily, but overall, that's quite a likely outcome because PR is one of the inputs which determines where a site ranks in the SERP's, and in general, the higher it ranks for its common search terms, the more traffic it's likely to get (once it's on the first page of the SERP's, anyway).

    The exact outcome in any individual case is also going to depend on other factors, though, such as the competitors' PR's and other factors affecting their SEO.

    It's not uncommon at all for lower-PR pages to outrank higher-PR pages. Certainty is hard to come by, but an improvement in PR is definitely more likely to lead to a traffic increase than to a traffic decrease.
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  • Profile picture of the author caksut
    the root cause why site with good PR but it doesn't yield enough traffic because of improper keyword research. Bear in mind keyword research has big portion to determine failure or success of driving web traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author dv8domainsDotCom
    I've found PR is an indicator of what your traffic should be, depending on the relevancy of the backlinks that give that PR to begin with (relevance is more important than PR IMO). I've focused more on keyword-specific backlinks and have a brand new domain (well, 3 months old now, PR0) ranking spots 3-5 on page 1 with pages around it having individual rankings of PR2-5 (some above, some below). The high relevance of the backlinks means more than PR, from what I've found.
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